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Nalin: Sep 29, 2007; Hair Elf

Try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mozlz4-edit/

Open up your search.json.mozlz4 file in your profile and play around to check your URLs. Maybe the "Add Engines" button or something might let you fix any issues?

EDIT: Mine looks like this:

code:

DuckDuckGoCOM

https://duckduckgo.com/?q={searchTerms}

data:image/png;base64,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

EDIT EDIT: Really, I make no promises if this works. A lot of the information on this is old.

Nalin fucked around with this message at 22:07 on Mar 31, 2022

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# ? May 31, 2024 09:42

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

WattsvilleBlues posted:

Something that Bitwarden, for instance, doesn't do unless that feature is switched on by the user. Join us today

i'm never moving from keep ass2

# ? Apr 1, 2022 00:20

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

apparently it was a user-provided version i'd installed to replace the broken default version, whoops. restoring the now-unbroken default fixed it

seconding bitwarden it's good, though i wish it had that fastmail garbage address integration that 1password has.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 01:32

Killingyouguy!: Sep 8, 2014

Is it possible to have Firefox keep my pinned tabs on restart but other forget all my browsing history? It seems like "clear history when Firefox closes" breaks pin tabs

# ? Apr 1, 2022 14:28

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Killingyouguy! posted:

Is it possible to have Firefox keep my pinned tabs on restart but other forget all my browsing history? It seems like "clear history when Firefox closes" breaks pin tabs

The very first checkbox, when you open your preferences, should be "Open previous windows and tabs" under General/Startup.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:10

Sab669: Sep 24, 2009

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

The very first checkbox, when you open your preferences, should be "Open previous windows and tabs" under General/Startup.

They want it to only open previous Pinned tabs, though, not the full suite of tabs that were open.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 16:32

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Sab669 posted:

They want it to only open previous Pinned tabs, though, not the full suite of tabs that were open.

Yes, if you leave "open previous windows and tabs" off and pin a window, the pinned window opens the next time. Otherwise, it wouldn't be pinned.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:15

Sab669: Sep 24, 2009

Hmm. I must be misunderstanding how the Pinned Tab feature works. I don't pin things very often but I assumed it followed the same behavior of an unpinned one.

I thought pining it was mostly just to keep it small and out of the way from the rest of your tabs.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:23

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Nope, pinning preserves them across browser shutdowns too:

quote:

Pinned Tabs allow you to always keep your favorite web apps like Facebook, Gmail and Twitter open and just a click away. Pinned Tabs are small, can't be closed accidentally and open automatically when you start Firefox.

This can be quite useful when you're working with firefox as a kiosk browser.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:41

Killingyouguy!: Sep 8, 2014

Idk what a pinned window is, but yeah my old Firefox profile would preserve just my pinned tabs between restarts, and just show my home screen in the one normal tab on startup. I don't want it preserving all my old open tabs, I just don't want to have to restart outlook, slack, etc every time I log into work

# ? Apr 1, 2022 17:56

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

is there an extension (or option for an extension) that will block certain domains from showing up in (duckduckgo) search results? I hate amazon, and of course any product i want to look for gives me 90% amazon links

# ? Apr 2, 2022 16:04

Sab669: Sep 24, 2009

actionjackson posted:

is there an extension (or option for an extension) that will block certain domains from showing up in (duckduckgo) search results? I hate amazon, and of course any product i want to look for gives me 90% amazon links

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

Simply append -site:amazon.com to your query.

Inversely, if you wish to only search a specific website, just do site:whatever.com without the leading -

A plugin to automate that would be useful, but at least you can DIY in the mean time

# ? Apr 2, 2022 16:13

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

You might also look for sites like pricerunner et cetera ad nauseum, which are made to do price comparisons from local or semi-local vendors.

# ? Apr 2, 2022 16:21

ChickenOfTomorrow: Nov 11, 2012; god damn it, you've got to be kind

Sab669 posted:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax/

Simply append -site:amazon.com to your query.

Inversely, if you wish to only search a specific website, just do site:whatever.com without the leading -

A plugin to automate that would be useful, but at least you can DIY in the mean time

I installed a greasemonkey script called "DuckDuckGo, Always add certain search parameters" and use it to always add "-site:pinterest.com -site:pinterest.co.uk -site:pinterest.com.au -site:pinterest.nz -site:pinterest.ca" to my ddg searches. Because it's greasemonkey i have to be searching on the ddg website though, not just using the location bar.

# ? Apr 2, 2022 16:51

Flipperwaldt: Nov 11, 2011; Won't somebody think of the starving hamsters in China?

actionjackson posted:

is there an extension (or option for an extension) that will block certain domains from showing up in (duckduckgo) search results? I hate amazon, and of course any product i want to look for gives me 90% amazon links

This one seems to work. Google will from time to time bring something up that it doesn't recognise as a regular search result, but it seems to do its thing on DDG. Don't ask me if it is definitely privacy friendly or safe though.

# ? Apr 2, 2022 16:53

Sab669: Sep 24, 2009

ChickenOfTomorrow posted:

I installed a greasemonkey script called "DuckDuckGo, Always add certain search parameters" and use it to always add "-site:pinterest.com -site:pinterest.co.uk -site:pinterest.com.au -site:pinterest.nz -site:pinterest.ca" to my ddg searches. Because it's greasemonkey i have to be searching on the ddg website though, not just using the location bar.

That's smart. Can you just inspect the data-domain on the div and hide them if it matches one of the sites defined?

I'm a programmer but I always forget Greasemonkey exists. Was actually inspecting the page HTML earlier thinking, "How would I write a plug in for that if so inclined", but yea I always forget about that plug in.

# ? Apr 2, 2022 18:09

Saukkis: May 16, 2003; Unless I'm on the inside curve pointing straight at oncoming traffic the high beams stay on and I laugh at your puny protest flashes.
I am Most Important Man. Most Important Man in the World.

Is there a way to make PgDn scroll only half a screen?

# ? Apr 2, 2022 18:12

actionjackson: Jan 12, 2003

thanks!

# ? Apr 2, 2022 19:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

actionjackson posted:

is there an extension (or option for an extension) that will block certain domains from showing up in (duckduckgo) search results? I hate amazon, and of course any product i want to look for gives me 90% amazon links

I remember when this feature was built into Google search. Then Jack loving Ma rolled a dozen dump trucks full of money up to Google headquarters and, well, hope you like Alibaba results.

If you use uBlock, you can add rules to do it. I found this idea on reddit a long time ago.

Two different ways to block sites:

code:

duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="xspdf.com"]
duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="experts-exchange.com"]

code:

www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="xspdf.com"])
www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="experts-exchange.com"])

And just add more to your heart's content.

Like loving Pinterest.

Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 03:23 on Apr 3, 2022

# ? Apr 3, 2022 03:20

CoolCab: Apr 17, 2005; glem

why are they allowed to put a link for an image in the image search and you click on it and you can't get the image. no one else gets away with it!

# ? Apr 3, 2022 03:40

Siliziumleben: Dec 4, 2003; The scientists' findings were astounding! They discovered that the powers of the Metroid might be harnessed for the good of civilization!

actionjackson posted:

is there an extension (or option for an extension) that will block certain domains from showing up in (duckduckgo) search results? I hate amazon, and of course any product i want to look for gives me 90% amazon links

I'm a long-timer user of Google Hit Hider by Domain, which despite its name also supports other search engines such as DuckDuckGo. It's frankly one of the ~~extensions~~ userscripts I can't live without, since it allows me to send all the blatantly-mirroring-content-from-StackOverflow websites which regularly show up in my search results to the void.

Siliziumleben fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Apr 3, 2022

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BaldDwarfOnPCP: Jun 26, 2019; by Pragmatica

Siliziumleben posted:

I'm a long-timer user of Google Hit Hider by Domain, which despite its name also supports other search engines such as DuckDuckGo. It's frankly one of the ~~extensions~~ userscripts I can't live without, since it allows me to send all the blatantly-mirroring-content-from-StackOverflow websites which regularly show up in my search results to the void.

This seems like a winner.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I remember when this feature was built into Google search. Then Jack loving Ma rolled a dozen dump trucks full of money up to Google headquarters and, well, hope you like Alibaba results.

If you use uBlock, you can add rules to do it. I found this idea on reddit a long time ago.

Two different ways to block sites:
code:
duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="xspdf.com"]
duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="experts-exchange.com"]
code:
www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="xspdf.com"])
www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="experts-exchange.com"])
And just add more to your heart's content.

Like loving Pinterest.

Also appreciated.

# ? Apr 3, 2022 09:42

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I remember when this feature was built into Google search. Then Jack loving Ma rolled a dozen dump trucks full of money up to Google headquarters and, well, hope you like Alibaba results.

If you use uBlock, you can add rules to do it. I found this idea on reddit a long time ago.

Two different ways to block sites:
code:
duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="xspdf.com"]
duckduckgo.com##[data-domain$="experts-exchange.com"]
code:
www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="xspdf.com"])
www.google.com##div[class="g"]:has(a[href*="experts-exchange.com"])
And just add more to your heart's content.

Like loving Pinterest.

I wonder if there's a filterset that tries to get rid of all of these sites using filters like this.

Speaking of features Google used to have, I remember when google.com/bsd was a thing for searching for things related to the BSD family of OS'.
It's frustrating to no end when they got rid of it, because it meant search term pollution from both Windows, Linux, and macOS.

# ? Apr 3, 2022 11:31

Sab669: Sep 24, 2009

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Nope, pinning preserves them across browser shutdowns too:

This can be quite useful when you're working with firefox as a kiosk browser.

Just actually tried this, that's really cool feature / good to know :toot:

I generally don't like the "preserve my opened tabs" thing, but yea being able to quickly keep one around on the fly like that is ace

# ? Apr 3, 2022 15:52

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

the latest in my neverending sequence of problems:

on my new machine i decided to switch to wayland and the firefox wayland mode. this appears to work mostly fine except that the text edit cursor is now inexplicably active on ALL text. if i click somewhere on a block of very non-editable text, it'll display a useless blinking I-bar. this is very distracting

sadly searching for this is difficult because most of the issues bring up (already-solved) problems related to the text cursor in its intended habitat, not outside it. anyone encountered this/know how to make it stop?

hell, if there's a way to even just make the cursor not-animated i'll take that, i don't really need the blinking when editing text

edit: nah, somehow caret browsing got turned on. how, idk--my F-keys aren't F-keys by default, and using the hotkey pops up a big rear end dialog to confirm

Qtotonibudinibudet fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Apr 5, 2022

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BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Yeah, wayland on FreeBSD sometimes get stuck with the wrong cursor mode, too - although I'm not sure it has anything to do with Firefox, since I see it on alacritty too.

Maybe it's related to the direct rendering manager?

It's absolutely bizarre, but for me it usually goes away again within a short amount of time, maybe due to switching workspaces so often.

# ? Apr 5, 2022 11:32

Nth Doctor: Sep 7, 2010; Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!

I've been experiencing a really weird intermittent error for the last few days.

Every so often Firefox decides to forget how to send HTTP requests when a page is loading and it is driving me loving bananas. Often what happens is a site's ancillary content is the victim, but on occasion an entire site will end up blacklisted by Firefox.
Here's what I'm talking about :
I navigate to Google.com on a new tab, and the new tab page remains unchanged. I can open up developer tools, retry the navigation to google.com and the request ends in just a few milliseconds

Nothing about my request seems untoward:

And the only other really relevant tab I can think of is the Timing details:

Refreshing the page tends not to fix things. On occasion, if I hit the Resend button in the second image, I will get a successful request and beginning at that point things seem okay. For a while.

What's also weird is the request status stays blank forever. It's like firefox or the remote server summarily hung up.
There is nothing in the browser console to indicate what the problem was. I didn't grab a screenshot but there's just nothing there.

This has persisted across multiple browser restarts and even a browser update from 98.whatever to 99.0. I also just rebooted my machine yesterday.

Has anyone experienced this before?

# ? Apr 5, 2022 22:37

Qtotonibudinibudet: Nov 7, 2011; Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki

Having timing info for connecting but not for TLS negotiation suggests that it's probably never connecting successfully. Normally I'd expect that to display an error pretty quickly, but IDK offhand what Firefox's TCP connect timeout is.

Wireshark will confirm as much if you can find the TCP stream, though that's probably going to be difficult since you'll likely have plenty of other connections to Google and AFAIK no way to get Firefox to show the source port to better identify it. Unfortunately if you can confirm as much you're kind of left with the less than useful explanation of "blame your router doing something fucky", and most consumer routers have very little in terms of diagnostic tools.

https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/networking/http/logging.html also exists as a sort of alternative to Wireshark but it's a pain to read.

# ? Apr 6, 2022 00:30

C2C - 2.0: May 14, 2006; Dubs In The Key Of Life; Lipstick Apathy

Edit: redacted. Learned that Searx is an aggregate of specific sites.

C2C - 2.0 fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Apr 6, 2022

# ? Apr 6, 2022 06:00

Im_Special: Jan 2, 2011; Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.

FF99 and now raw .txt look different (paste.bin or some LICENSE.txt on github for example), anyway to revert this?

# ? Apr 6, 2022 11:20

Truga: May 4, 2014; Lipstick Apathy

Im_Special posted:

FF99 and now raw .txt look different (paste.bin or some LICENSE.txt on github for example), anyway to revert this?

there's a monospace font option in advanced font settings

# ? Apr 6, 2022 15:58

Im_Special: Jan 2, 2011; Look At This!!! WOW!
It's F*cking Nothing.

Ah that was it! So defaults were changed without tell me, thanks FF...uckers.

Let me tell you about change, I don't like it. (unless money, or underwear)

Courier New gang represent!

# ? Apr 6, 2022 20:01

astral: Apr 26, 2004

I've had mine manually set to Consolas for ages; I'm glad Firefox is catching up.

What I'm trying to say is to give it a chance, if you haven't yet.

# ? Apr 6, 2022 20:47

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Dejavu Sans and its Mono variant for monospaced fonts, and force every website to use it. :colbert:

# ? Apr 6, 2022 20:57

BlankSystemDaemon: Mar 13, 2009

Surely there are no privacy issues with appending a token to each download from the official website, right?

# ? Apr 6, 2022 22:44

Schwarzwald: Jul 27, 2004; Don't Blink

I installed the latest update (99.0) and now the menu buttons are half off the top while in fullscreen, and are bizarrely thick while windowed.

Fullscreen:

Windowed:

This is the strangest issue I've ever had.

# ? Apr 6, 2022 23:29

astral: Apr 26, 2004

Check your userChrome.css tweaks.

# ? Apr 6, 2022 23:43

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

BlankSystemDaemon posted:

Surely there are no privacy issues with appending a token to each download from the official website, right?

quote:

1) What questions will you answer with this data?

This data will allow us to correlate telemetry IDs with download tokens and Google Analytics IDs. This will allow us to track which installs result from which downloads to determine the answers to questions like, "Why do we see so many installs per day, but not that many downloads per day?"

Hm, what a bizarre mystery, how could people possibly be installing Firefox on computers without downloading the installer from the website on every individual PC? :thunk:

# ? Apr 7, 2022 06:52

Geemer: Nov 4, 2010

Another highlight is the idea to send the ping during installation and on, like, the first run.

But it's cool, users can totally opt out by turning off telemetry!

You know, that option you need to first have installed and run the program to reach.

E: And also the indefinite storage of this uniquely identifying information with zero intention of deleting it down the road + the ability to track users across wipes.

Geemer fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Apr 7, 2022

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# ? May 31, 2024 09:42

isndl: May 2, 2012; I WON A CONTEST IN TG AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS CUSTOM TITLE

Knormal posted:

Hm, what a bizarre mystery, how could people possibly be installing Firefox on computers without downloading the installer from the website on every individual PC?

Firefox installer now self-destructs to ensure users won't use old copies!

More seriously, why do they want to track the installer origin? Unless they're trying to tighten up on loopholes for some kind of monetization scheme I don't see why they should care if someone reused an installer.

# ? Apr 7, 2022 07:08

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